Terms

Version 2026-11-08, in effect since 8 November 2026.

These terms are the agreement between you and the company that runs this copy of readthis.md, called the operator here. If you accept them for an organization, they bind it, and you confirm that you may agree for it.

Who runs it

1612987 B.C. Ltd., doing business as readthis.md, 6583 Acorn Rd., Sechelt BC V7Z 0N3. Write to contact@readthis.md.

What readthis.md is

readthis.md keeps Markdown documents, with every version and the comments on them, and shares them by email address. It is free software under the AGPL (github.com/liambindle/readthis.md), and this hosted service is one way to use it.

The hosted service is a convenience: a small company running free software for whoever finds it useful, with no support desk, no uptime promise and no guarantee of any kind. If you need guarantees — about availability, support, how long anything is kept, security, or the rules your work must meet — run your own copy, where they are yours to set. The code is public, so you can read what it does before you trust it with anything.

You are your email address

You sign in with a code sent to your email, so whoever can read your mail can sign in as you. An agent or API key you connect acts as you, and what it does is yours. You need to be at least 16 to use readthis.md, and old enough to make a contract where you live to pay for it.

Your documents are yours

You keep every right to what you put in readthis.md. You give the operator only the permission it needs to run readthis.md for you: to store your documents, back them up, and show and send them to the people you share them with, for as long as it holds them. They are never sold or used to build anything else, and the operator looks inside one only to keep readthis.md running, to check a report about it, or when the law requires.

A version you save in somebody else’s document becomes part of it, and stays there even after you delete everything.

What you may not do

• Put anything in readthis.md that is unlawful, or that you have no right to put there, other people’s personal information included.
• Use it to harass, threaten or deceive anybody, to spread harmful software, or to send mail nobody asked for.
• Reach for what was not shared with you, probe or attack readthis.md, take more than your share of it, or get round its limits. If you find a weakness in its security, write to contact@readthis.md instead.
• Resell the hosted service. Running your own copy is welcome: that is what the AGPL is for.

readthis.md is not built for sensitive information. Do not put in it health information, payment card numbers, government identity numbers, or passwords and anything else that signs somebody in.

To report something on readthis.md that is unlawful, breaks these rules or infringes your copyright, write to contact@readthis.md with its address and what is wrong.

Free use and the subscription

• A subscription, CA$5 a month, plus any sales tax: every feature, with any number of documents, the least recently used going to the trash past 80% of the limit unless pinned; a document stays in the trash 30 days; 2 GB in all, trash included, and up to 200 emails a day.
• Free use, at no charge: your 5 most recently used documents, any unused for 5 days going to the trash, pinned or not; a document stays in the trash 7 days; 10 MB in all, trash included, and up to 20 emails a day.

Documents go to the trash as these limits say, or when you move them there, and you are emailed when they do. After their days in the trash they are deleted for good. Download a copy, in each document’s ⋯ menu, works for any document you own, in the trash too, and never costs anything.

The operator can change the price, the limits and the features. A change that gives you more can apply at once. For a subscription, a change that costs more or gives less is emailed to you 30 to 60 days before it applies, and applies from your first charge after that, so you can stop first.

Paying

Stripe sells the subscription, through its Link service, as the merchant of record: you pay Link, Link’s own terms cover the payment, and Link adds any tax and sends the receipts. The checkout shows the total before you pay. Subscribing accepts these terms, and you are emailed a copy of what you bought.

A subscription renews every month until you stop it, which you can do at any time, with no fee, from Manage billing in the settings behind your address. Stopping keeps the month you paid for, and then free use’s limits apply again. If you stop your subscription within 14 days of a charge, write to contact@readthis.md and that charge comes back.

Stopping

You can stop whenever you like. Delete everything, in the settings behind your address, stops your subscription and deletes what is yours at once, for good.

The operator can suspend or close your use of readthis.md if you break these terms. It can also close it, or stop the hosted service altogether, for any other reason, with at least 30 days’ notice by email so that you can download your work. If you paid, and it was not because you broke these terms, the unused part of what you paid comes back.

readthis.md is provided as is

The software comes with no warranty under the AGPL, and the hosted service comes with none either: it is provided as is and as available. There is no promise that it will be available, quick, secure or free of faults, that it will keep working as it does now, or that nothing will ever be lost. What this page and the privacy page say about the trash, deleting and backups is how readthis.md is built to work, not a promise that it always does. Keep your own copies: Download a copy is there for it.

The operator makes no promise of any kind about readthis.md, written or implied — not that it is of any particular quality, not that it is fit for any particular purpose, and not that it infringes nobody’s rights — except the promises the law where you live does not let a seller leave out.

What the operator is not responsible for

As far as the law allows, the operator is not responsible for what you store, who you share it with, or what they do with it; for a document lost, damaged or deleted; for loss you could have avoided by keeping the copy Download a copy gives you; for lost profits, earnings, revenue, business, opportunity or goodwill; for time spent putting something right; for anything outside its reasonable control; or for any indirect loss, or loss nobody could have foreseen when you agreed to these terms.

Where the operator does owe you something anyway, the most it comes to, for everything together, is what you paid for readthis.md in the 12 months before the thing that went wrong. On free use, that is nothing.

These limits apply however a claim is made — under these terms, for negligence, or otherwise — and they protect the operator’s directors, officers, employees and contractors exactly as they protect the operator: each of them can rely on this section. What the operator owes you, it owes as a company. A claim about readthis.md is made against the operator, not against any of those people personally, unless one of them acted fraudulently or meant to cause harm.

If you use readthis.md for work or a business and somebody brings a claim against the operator, or any of those people, because of what you stored or shared, or because you broke these terms, you cover what that claim reasonably costs them, lawyers’ fees included.

What these terms cannot take away

Nothing here takes away a right the law does not let you give up, including the consumer protections of the place where you live. Where the law does not allow something on this page, it applies only as far as the law allows, and the rest of the page stands.

Changes to these terms

Apart from the price, the limits and the features, these terms change only with a new version, which applies to you once you accept it. You are asked the next time you arrive, and until then the version you accepted last applies. Earlier versions are in the public history of the code.

Disagreements

These terms are under the law of British Columbia and of Canada, and claims are heard in the courts of British Columbia, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring one there. Write to contact@readthis.md first: most of what goes wrong is a mistake, and a mistake is fixed faster by email.

The rest

These terms, the privacy page and Link’s terms for a payment are the whole agreement. The operator may hand it to a company that takes readthis.md over; you may hand yours on only with the operator’s agreement. If you send an idea or a suggestion, the operator may use it and owes you nothing for it.